"This testing will check clearances between the missile and the aircraft to ensure there are no negative impacts when carrying LRASM."

Patuxent River and Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake will continue with integration efforts and flight testing over the next few years to clear LRASM for flight operations on the aircraft.

"This testing will check clearances between the missile and the aircraft to ensure there are no negative impacts when carrying LRASM."

LRASM is expected to deliver flexible, long-range, advanced, anti-surface capability against high threat maritime targets when it becomes operational.

This precision-guided anti-ship standoff missile is equipped with a multi-mode sensor, weapon data link, and an enhanced digital global positioning system to detect and destroy specific targets within a group of ships.

Armed with a 1,000lb penetrator and blast-fragmentation warhead, the missile can cruise autonomously, day or night, in all weather conditions.